Walking the River Fleet - Lost Rivers of London (4K)

Walking the River Fleet - Lost Rivers of London with John Rogers
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A walk along London’s most famous, notorious and mysterious lost river - The River Fleet. Starting at Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath we pass the Hampstead tumulus on the way to one of the two sources of the Fleet at the Vale of Health. We follow the Fleet as it gurgles across the Heath feeding the Hampstead Ponds. The other source of the Fleet rises in Ken Wood before feeding the Highgate Ponds and meandering through Dartmouth Park and Tufnell Park to Kentish Town.
The Fleet departs the Heath at South End Green and we trace the course along Fleet Road to Gospel Oak and Anglers Lane in Kentish Town. The river flows beneath Kentish Town Road, the two branches combining near Quinn's Pub, before it crosses Camden Road. In Lyme Street we get our first sighting of the Fleet beneath ground, or rather a smell wafting up through the street iron.
The river continues more of less along the line of Pancras Road and past St. Pancras Old Church, a location rich with stories and the site of Roman remains that some claim could be one of the oldest places of Christian worship in the world. The course of the river takes us past Kings Cross Station and into St. Chad's Place where the shape of the river is visible.
Our River Fleet walk leads us along Kings Cross Road to the site of Bagnigge Wells, a notorious 17th and 18th Century pleasure garden which grew up around a spring beside the Fleet.
We turn into Cubitt Street and then into Phoenix Place, as the Fleet beckons us into Warner Street where we can clearly see and hear the river beneath the street irons. "One writer, Mr J.G Waller points out that the holes that gave the Saxon name to the Holebourne are still marked by the sites of Hockley-in-the-hole now Ray Street Clerkenwell-and Black Mary's Hole, Bagnigge Wells."
Springs, Streams and Spas of London History and Associations Alfred Stanley Foord, 1910
The final street of the River Fleet walk goes along Farringdon Road, with a detour into Farringdon Lane to visit the site of the Clerks Well, and to the famous One Tun pub in Saffron Hill that features in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
The Fleet makes its confluence with the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge where this walk ends.

List of sources
The History of London by Walter Besant (1893)
The Lost Rivers of London by Nicholas Barton (1962)
The Fields Beneath by Gillian Tindall (1977)
Some Lost Rivers of London by Alan Ivimey in Wonderful London (1926)
The Northern Heights of London by William Howitt (1869)
London the Biography by Peter Ackroyd (2000)
Old London’s Spas, Baths, and Wells by Septimus Sunderland (1915)
Springs, Streams and Spas of London History and Associations by Alfred Stanley Foord (1910)
Where To See And Hear The Hidden River Fleet by Tom Bolton, Londonist https://londonist.com/2016/09/where-to-see-and-hear-the-hidden-river-fleet

Music
Enochian Magic by JR Tundra
Length of Light by Amulets
A Slow Dream by Emily A. Sprague
Amber - VYEN
Little Drunk Quiet Floats by Puddle of Infinity
Pachabelly by Huma-Huma
Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky
Wandering and Floating by Au.Ra

filmed on 8th November 2020

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